1949 Japanese general election

none Japan 1870 parliamentary 1947 Japanese general election 1947 23 January 1949 1952 Japanese general election 1952 All 466 seats in the House of Representatives 234 74.04% (6.09pp) Shigeru Yoshida smiling2.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Shigeru Yoshida Democratic Liberal Party (Japan) – 264 New 13,420,269 43.87% New Takeru inukai.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Takeru Inukai Democratic Party (Japan, 1947) 25.44%, 124 seats 70 54 4,798,352 15.68% 9.76pp 片山哲 (cropped).jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Tetsu Katayama Japan Socialist Party 26.23%, 143 seats 48 95 4,129,794 13.50% 12.73pp TOKUDA Kyuichi.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Kyuichi Tokuda Japanese Communist Party 3.67%, 4 seats 35 31 2,984,780 9.76% 6.09pp Takeo Miki-2-1.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Takeo Miki National Cooperative Party 7.00%, 31 seats 14 17 1,041,879 3.41% 3.59pp Hisao Kuroda 01.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Hisao Kuroda Labourers and Farmers Party – 7 New 606,840 1.98% New 400px Districts shaded according to winners' vote strength Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida Democratic Liberal Shigeru Yoshida Democratic Liberal General elections were held in Japan on 23 January 1949. The result was a landslide victory for the Democratic Liberal Party, which won 269 of the 466 seats.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p381 0-19-924959-8 Voter turnout was 74.0%. It was the first election held following the enactment of the current Constitution of Japan. Future prime ministers Hayato Ikeda and Eisaku Satō and future Foreign Minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsuo Okazaki were first elected in this election. The second cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was formed following the election. The Japanese Communist Party's best prefecture performance was 20.07% in Osaka and its worst was 2.63% in Kagoshima.Scalapino 1967 317-318 This was the best performance of the JCPCole Totten Uyehara 1966 25 until the 1972 election. Results File:Japan House of Representatives 1949.svg Democratic Liberal Party 13420269 264 New Democratic Party 4798352 69 −55 Japan Socialist Party 4129794 48 −95 Japanese Communist Party 2984780 35 +31 National Cooperative Party 1041879 14 −17 Labourers and Farmers Party 606840 7 New Other parties 1602496 17 – Independents 2008109 12 0 582438 42105300 −2 Oscarsson,Oscarsson Nohlen et al. By prefecture PrefectureTotalseatsSeats wonDLPDPJSPJCPNCPLFPOthersInd.Aichi191051111Akita853Aomori7331Chiba13112Ehime981Fukui422Fukuoka19923131Fukushima1293Gifu9711Gunma104321Hiroshima12732Hokkaido22112117Hyōgo18103221Ibaraki127212Ishikawa63111Iwate8611Kagawa6132Kagoshima1091Kanagawa1351331Kōchi5221Kumamoto104411Kyoto1033121Mie94113Miyagi9621Miyazaki651Nagano138212Nagasaki9711Nara52111Niigata15813111Ōita7511Okayama105212Osaka191054Saga532Saitama139121Shiga52111Shimane51211Shizuoka14911111Tochigi107111Tokushima532Tokyo271314711Tottori4211Toyama6321Wakayama6312Yamagata8521Yamaguchi9621Yamanashi52111Total4662646948351471712 References Works cited Cole Allan Totten George Uyehara Cecil Socialist Parties In Postwar Japan Yale University Press 1966 Scalapino Robert Robert A. Scalapino The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920-1966 University of California Press 1967 Japan General Category:General elections in Japan Japan Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results